Chester-Joplin-Inverness quarterback Spencer Richter drops back to pass during a Northern C game against Choteau last month. Richter is having a huge season for the Hawks, and, CJI is on a roll entering tonight's game with the GFCC Mustangs in Chester.

The Chester-Joplin-Inverness Hawks are part of a strong tradition of high school football in Chester and after struggling with numbers and mediocrity the past couple of seasons, CJI is on the comeback trail in 2018.

After losing just once in the regular season back in 2015, the Hawks have hovered around .500 the past couple seasons, making the playoffs as the final team out of the Northern C in 2016, before coming up one win short of making a play-in game for the playoffs last season.

While the 2017 season didn’t necessarily turn out the way the Hawks wanted it to, CJI didn’t have a...